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The Pickup Place / pole screws direction dilemma...
« on: July 08, 2018, 12:57:03 PM »
Hi, i have an Ibanez with 5 way switch: neck, neck parallel, neck & bridge, neck & bridge split, bridge.

The Air Norton i had in the neck position has the screw poles towards the neck, cable down towards the electronics.

Now I have an Air Classic DP190 that I want to use in the neck position. Looking at it, it has the pole screws on the other coil.

Does that matter?

I don't care if the screw poles doesn't face the neck, and I guess the split mode will be on the pole screw side on the Air classic, and thus split mode will be correct (inner coils facing each other)

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The Pickup Place / Tone Zone/Air Norton combo
« on: May 25, 2018, 10:30:52 AM »
Hi. Just got my first humbucker equipped guitar. Its an Ibanez RGAT62
http://www.ibanez.com/products/eg_detail18.php?year=2018&area_id=3&cat_id=1&series_id=10&data_id=357&color=CL02
I bought it because i wanted something completely different from the Telecaster i have.

I love the Ibanez, but the pickups surprised me a bit. I will try to make this short.

I have no problem with Tone Zone (bridge), but the Air Norton feels very hard to dial in, at least to my liking.
I understand what it is meant to do though. I can see its function in lead/solo work.

But for my use, it just seems so loud. I lowered the Air Norton to find a volume balance, because i want the Tone Zone to be my hot pickup for dirt. But the Air Norton quickly looses its definition and clarity in the low end.

They are wired with the ibanez 5 position switch.
Bridge works great.
Both pickups split also sounds great. I use this a lot.
Both humbuckers sounds good but nothing i have use for.
Neck in parallel. Reminds me of the split position, very glassy and clean, but the the lows sounds to soft.
Neck only. I don't think i will use this position a lot. Its to dark and loud.

What I've done is, adjusting the Tone Zone to my liking. I found i liked it best adjusted down a little from the strings than it was stock. And also adjusted polepieces up to get back some clarity.

Did the same to Air Norton but as i said, it need to be quite far down to get balance. Was ok'ish when i adjusted the polepieces up on that to.

My thinking is that, maybe the Air Norton is not for me. I can accept it, as i only will be using Bridge pos, Split pos and neck parrallel. Basically i won't be using the middle pos and neck only pos.

But it bugs me a little....

Any tips on adjusting height or polepieces welcome, if you think I'm doing it wrong.
I think that the way i like to have the Tone Zone, makes it hard to get the Air Norton right (for me)

May it be worth doing some kind of mod to the Air Norton to get the volume down, and be able to bring it up to the strings for more low end clarity. It still got very clear and defined highs though.

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